Climate change and health
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Climate change and health at Coursera Overview
Duration | 56 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Climate change and health at Coursera Highlights
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Climate change and health at Coursera Course details
- The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners in collaboration with experts from Imperial College?s Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment
- Through short video lectures, readings and a wide range of interactive activities, learners will be immersed in the intersection of climate change and health
- Learners will be introduced to climate change, its influence on individual and public health and implications for policy: whether new to the topic, or coming with a wealth of experience
- By the end of this course, learners will be familiar with planetary health, global climate governance structures and climate policy instruments
Climate change and health at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to Climate Change and Health
About Imperial College London
Welcome to Global Health Challenges and Governance
Meet the Global Health Challenges and Governance Team
How to be successful in this course?
Grading Policy
Specialisation structure and assessments
Glossary
Planetary Health
Introduction to climate change and health
Understanding global environmental change
Professor Hugh Montgomery - planetary burden of disease
Acknowledgement: Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
Introduction to planetary health
Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch
The purpose of the policy brief assessment
Steps in planning and designing a policy brief
Selecting a global health topic
Searching for literature to answer your research question
Critically evaluating your chosen sources
Relationship of global environmental changes to globalisation
Planetary health vs. Global health
An Introduction to Climate Change
Why Decarbonise?
OPTIONAL: Climate Change Attribution
OPTIONAL: Future Impact of Climate Change
Introduction to global climate change
Evidence for climate change
Impacts of climate change
OPTIONAL: Climate change impacts on the water resources of the Ganges basin
Which actors and institutions are important to tackling climate change?
Global governance structures in mitigating and adapting to climate change impacts
Preparing for your policy brief
The Health Impacts of Climate Change
Introduction to climate change and health
Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation
OPTIONAL: Dr Nick Watts - health co-benefits of climate change action
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on health
Increasing evidence of climate change impacts on health
Salinity in Bangladesh – A Case Study
Video: Salinity and Maternal Health
Co-benefits of climate change mitigation in the UK
Identifying policy options and recommendations
Climate-sensitive diseases
Responding to climate change
Knowledge check on climate change
Global Health Policy Analysis
Global Health Policy Analysis
Climate change, migration and health
Summary: Climate Change and Health
Applying a policy analysis framework to a case study of Fiji
The health impacts of climate-related migration
Capstone project for the Global Health Challenges and Governance Specialisation
Compiling your capstone project
The purpose of the literature review assessment
The purpose of the infographic assessment
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